Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] as [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the categorisation of this procedure as arbitration is traditional and deeply rooted , and unlikely to take notice of the guidelines . |
| 2 | Howe 's presence this season as coach is a real bonus to him . |
| 3 | Wisdom was to this man as boredom was to others . |
| 4 | Drug-taking is woven as tightly into teenage social life as drinking is into the social lives of their parents . |
| 5 | Underpinning the desire for a popular reappraisal of Degas ' modernist status as genius is a justified desire for academic recognition of the developments and achievements of feminist art history . |
| 6 | Sitting in the cold gloom , Dowd began to weep quietly , which was an experience as far beyond his true emotional capacity as cold was beyond his nerve-endings . |
| 7 | However as in the sentry the message of hope is a false one and the soldiers died anyway , while the snow in the phrase ‘ until this morning and this snow ’ is assuredly a description of the same it would also appear to be in contrast to the warm sun as death is the contrast to life and the day the soldier is brought out the sun fails to wake him and there is snow . |
| 8 | The government of C. R. ( later Earl ) Attlee accepted the recommendations ; Turner 's second decade as director was devoted primarily to implementing them , recruiting and training young scholars , including many whose interest had been aroused during war service in Asia or Africa , and building up strong academic departments . |
| 9 | It has been suggested that pressure of a moral obligation as justification is the basis of Brimelow v. Casson , though the case has been said to stand alone and there are conflicting dicta on moral obligation . |
| 10 | Information is as vital to a democratic regime as propaganda is to an authoritarian one ( Blumler , 1987 ) . |
| 11 | Looking about him , it was hard to imagine anything quite so different from the world he had inhabited these past ten years — a world as divorced from this simple domesticity as death is from life . |
| 12 | Political confidence would be instilled through each side ceasing its propaganda efforts and undertaking to recognize and respect the political and social systems of the other until such time as reunification was achieved . |
| 13 | Thus a careful choice of some dark material as background was clearly going to be necessary . |
| 14 | Irwin 's first big political initiative as viceroy was to extract from the British government permission to make a formal declaration that dominion status was the goal of British policy for India . |
| 15 | There is not much sound , except perhaps the musical whirr and clack of a mowing machine being pushed back and forth over a neighbouring lawn , and the clink of cups and saucers and a soft footfall as tea is prepared indoors . ’ |
| 16 | The mystic 's understanding of this joy at the heart of experience is called visionary ; it is to ordinary human perception as waking is to sleeping ; and this carol , in its excited evocation of the significance of redemption in words and images , answers to this understanding . |
| 17 | Positive controls were sections of normal formalin fixed wax embedded human liver as liver is known to express all the enzymes being studied . |
| 18 | This may , according to Smith , stimulate competitor economies against the home economy or cause domestic inflation as money is printed to resolve balance of payments and falling demand problems at home . |
| 19 | She had brought everything she would need , including a little food as Marguerite was not expecting her . |
| 20 | If patients are receiving sulphonylureas at the time of admission there is no contraindication to their continuation , although one should be wary of the very long-acting chlorpropamide as hypoglycaemia is more likely . |
| 21 | In applications such as drawing packages where the pressure applied to the pen determines line thickness or style , the frequency of the returned signal is changed by the pen nib compressing the integral coil as pressure is increased . |
| 22 | One danger of treating all crime as sickness is that it makes the criminal a second-class citizen . |
| 23 | Perhaps a diesel engine would be a better alternative as diesel is more readily available and cheaper in countries like Morocco . |
| 24 | The people who make the laws and regulations relating to such a highly technological activity as aviation are as capable of making mistakes as the engineers who build the aircraft and the crews that fly them . |
| 25 | Detection is a great problem as breach is frequently only discovered after employment ends . |
| 26 | Their support is then usually too late to avert psychiatric disorder as research is clear in showing that most disorder associated with life events develops quite rapidly after the event . |
| 27 | One day as dusk was falling and he was feeding in a deserted cove at a dead razorbill he had found , and a heavy grey sea rolled in among the great rocks below the high-tide mark , Creggan became aware that he was being watched . |
| 28 | Scott 's first year as Headmaster was to prove rather quiet ( in comparison with what was to come later ) , though not totally without incident . |
| 29 | One of Anselm 's first actions during his first year as archbishop was to suspend them both . |
| 30 | The identifiable failures of school science — the anti-science anti-technologists who can see science only as domination rather than that science as domination is itself a historical product , and the mass of people whose schooling teaches them that science is a specialized activity over which they neither have nor could have any control . |